Law roundup: Three dogs have their day at the same time

Two out of three is better than none, at least when it comes to dogs running loose. Animal control officers with help from the Kalispell Police Department nabbed two medium-sized tan dogs running around the Empire Loop area. Callers initially reported three animals running in and out of the roadway and sprinting up the bike path. The third pooch apparently evaded authorities.

Officers were alerted to another loose dog that got into a resident’s backyard, tackled his son and bit the child. The black lab did not break the skin as the boy wore a thick jacket. He seemed fine following the encounter and his father stressed that the dog was excited rather than aggressive.

In a chance encounter, a store employee came face to face with a woman she had trespassed recently at a local gas station. The woman charged toward her and told her to “watch her back.” Worried, the employee alerted authorities and asked that charges be brought against the other woman.

Police counseled a family after a sibling dispute grew physical. The brother-sister spat escalated when the boy began filming his sister. She was gone by the time officers arrived and they met with the brother and mother instead. They determined the incident fell short of a crime and discussed possible resources available to the family.

Apparently flying off the handle, a man got out of his truck and came at another person “in a rage.” The victim told authorities that they were heading home when they came across the man backing up his trailer with a pickup truck. The encounter escalated from there. The target of the rage felt he needed to report the incident because his assailant seemed unstable.

Officers were called upon to remove a man found camping with his bicycle in the bathroom of a county owned building.

A thief nabbed a .45 caliber semi-automatic gun from a man’s vehicle. He was out of town when the theft occurred and his vehicle was left in an area parking lot.

A neighbor reported two women yelling and screaming at each other. The caller said the argument possibly began over the drinking habit of one of the women. The duo left before officers arrived.

The owner of a new-to-them truck contacted authorities after the vehicle’s license plates vanished. The theft had occurred at some point over a two week span where the man left the truck parked at his mother’s apartment. He told authorities he had a bill of sale, but not yet had the vehicle registered to him.

Investigators, in speaking with the man, learned that he assumed the plates, which came with the truck, would be reassigned to him upon registering it. They suspected the owner of the plates had retrieved them. Officers assured the man that he will receive new license plates, his own, upon registering the truck.

Word of a possible zombie wandering a parking lot of a local business roused a response from law enforcement. Officers were told that a twitchy man with a bobbing head was ambling about customers. One caller described the man as making “zombie-like movements.” Officers met with the man as he was leaving the area. They deemed him fine and not doing anything wrong.